Field Producing on Last Week Tonight & Tackling Vimeo’s EU/UK Problem

This week on the No Movie Faculty Podcast, GG Hawkins and Jason Hellerman sit down with filmmaker and producer Matthew Scheffler, whose distinctive path by way of the trade contains 5 seasons of area producing for Final Week Tonight with John Oliver and producing reveals like Random Acts of Flyness and Black Twitter: A Individuals’s Historical past. Matthew shares his journey from faking his manner into the trade to directing his personal Victorian horror brief, The Traveler, whereas elevating three children and navigating the shifting panorama of indie filmmaking. The episode additionally revisits the rising frustration that Vimeo customers within the UK and EU face because of regulatory modifications, sparking a bigger dialog on platform accountability and the way forward for video internet hosting for filmmakers.On this episode, we focus on: How Matthew went from commercials in Boston to producing Emmy-winning segments for Final Week TonightThe actual challenges of transitioning from manufacturing roles into directingHow working in manufacturing sharpened his inventive instinctsThe lengthy street to creating The Traveler, a Victorian horror brief shot on Staten IslandWhy Vimeo has grow to be inaccessible within the UK/EU and what it means for indie filmmakersA listener’s UK-based perspective on the lack of Employees Picks and public searchVimeo’s official response to the criticism and the broader implications of worldwide tech regulationGuests:Subscribe to the No Movie Faculty Podcast on:Get your query answered on the podcast by emailing podcast@nofilmschool.comListen to extra episodes of the No Movie Faculty podcast proper right here:This episode of The No Movie Faculty Podcast was produced by GG Hawkins.